Electroless nickel-boron plating

Excelling in solderability and bondability in comparison to electroless nickel-phosphorus plating, electroless nickel-boron plating is used for electronic parts.

Features (characteristic value)
- Having good solder wettability and bondability, but inferior corrosion resistance in comparison to electroless nickel-phosphorus plating.
- Ceramic substrates and IC packages
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Adoption examples

Electroless nickel-boron plating

Nickel-boron binary phase diagram

  Electroless nickel-phosphorus Electroless nickel-boron
Alloy composition of plating film 2 – 13 P wt%
Amorphous (crystallized by heat treatment)
0.3 – 1 B wt%
Microcrystalline
Hardness (as-plated) 500~700 700~800
Magnetism Non-magnetic (phosphorus 10% or more)
Magnetic (phosphorus under 10%)
Strongly magnetic
Internal stress Low compressive stress – tensile stress High tensile stress
Solderability Normal Good
Corrosion resistance and chemical resistance Excellent Normal